RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation hangs

2002-12-17 Thread Dennis . R . Myers
Title: RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation hangs -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Rye Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 11:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation hangs On Mon, 16 Dec 2002

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation hangs

2002-12-16 Thread Marc
12/13/02 12:18:26 PM, Vasiliy Boulytchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentlemen, I have had this error in the past, but I believe with FreeBSD 4.6. I do NOT remember what exactly it was that I did. OH YEAH!!! I think it was the CDROM. Believe it or not. Replace the IDE cdrom, and install

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation hangs

2002-12-16 Thread Vasiliy Boulytchev
Marc, Yeap, its a driver issue, its the limited amount of drivers loaded into 9.0 kernel. H, did you replace the CDROM with the same model of the CDROM? Search on Mandrake for errate on your Hardware manufacturers. I thought we were done with this crap years ago On

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation hangs

2002-12-16 Thread Marc
I replaced it with a different model and manufactuer cd drive. Also it does make it to the second level part of the installation. The first part where I am asked to select language and type of installation , reccomended or expert seems to work just fine. The problem is in the next stage. it

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation hangs

2002-12-16 Thread Graham
I don't know if this is relevant but I had a similar problem with my g/fs machine which turned out to be the MS blue USB optical mouse she was using (she liked the colour). In desperation I took everything back to basics an used my Logitech USB mouse and everything went thru fine. I was

[newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation hangs

2002-12-13 Thread Marc
I have a set of 9.0 CDs that I am shure are good because I have used them to install 9.0 on 2 other machines. Last night I went to install mandrake on a friends machine , things seemed to be going well for the first minite or 2 and then it hung while on hard drive detection part of the

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation hangs

2002-12-13 Thread wouter pos
I had have the same problem HELP US greetings wouter pos --- Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a set of 9.0 CDs that I am shure are good because I have used them to install 9.0 on 2 other machines. Last night I went to install mandrake on a friends machine , things seemed